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dddgghhbbfblk commented on It's 2026, Just Use Postgres tigerdata.com/blog/its-20... · Posted by u/turtles3

ronbenton · 5 days ago

I just pasted the first paragraph in an "AI detector" app and it indeed came back as 100% AI. But I heard those things are unreliable. How did you determine this was LLM-generated? The same way?

dddgghhbbfblk · 5 days ago

ChatGPT has a pretty obvious writing style at the moment. It's not a question of some nebulous "AI detector" gotcha, it's more just basic human pattern matching. The abundant bullet points, copious bold text, pithy one line summarizing assertions ("In the AI era, simplicity isn’t just elegant. It’s essential."). There are so many more in just how it structures its writing (eg "Let’s address this head-on."). Hard to enumerate everything, frankly.

dddgghhbbfblk commented on Self Driving Car Insurance lemonade.com/car/explaine... · Posted by u/KellyCriterion

Larrikin · 11 days ago

This is the nightmare scenario for me. A forever subscription for the usage of a car.

Subscription for self driving will almost be a given with so many bad actors in tech nowadays, but never even being allowed to own the car is even worse.

dddgghhbbfblk · 11 days ago

I think this is purely psychological. The notion of paying for usage of some resource that you don't own is really rather mundane when you get down to it.

dddgghhbbfblk commented on Tesla ending Models S and X production cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla... · Posted by u/keyboardJones

jrflowers · 13 days ago

Do you commute to and from work every day by taxi in NYC

dddgghhbbfblk · 13 days ago

First of all, some people do commute via ride hailing apps, yes. Second of all, transportation is a much bigger category than simply taking people to and from work.

dddgghhbbfblk commented on Tesla ending Models S and X production cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla... · Posted by u/keyboardJones

CursedSilicon · 13 days ago

Private taxis don't compete with public transit. They operate in completely different spheres

dddgghhbbfblk · 13 days ago

As a blanket statement that's not true with NYC being the most obvious (but not the only) counterexample.

dddgghhbbfblk commented on Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025) harvardmagazine.com/socia... · Posted by u/KnuthIsGod

0xDEAFBEAD · 22 days ago

Why weaken or remove the Senate? It seems like one of the few parts of the federal government which is vaguely functional.

dddgghhbbfblk · 22 days ago

Uhhhhh... What? Are we living on the same planet? The Senate is absolutely terrible. Not only is it breathtakingly undemocratic, the modern rise of the filibuster raising the threshold to 60% makes it even harder to pass any legislation.

The weakness of the Senate has abetted the expansion of the other two branches as Congress has ceded most of its lawmaking responsibilities. But there are still limits. There are so many other knock on negative effects too: inability to pass laws leads to more enormous omnibus bills, increasing the influence of lobbyists.

Simply deleting the Senate entirely would go a very long way to improving the structure of the US govt.

Edit: incidentally, the main thing I've learned over the years about this topic is that most Americans (not necessarily you specifically) have simply never questioned the received wisdom about the US Constitution that they learned in grade school and are maybe even incapable of evaluating it dispassionately.

dddgghhbbfblk commented on How uv got so fast nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how... · Posted by u/zdw

woodruffw · a month ago

Which part? The assumption is that when you `$TOOL install $PACKAGE`, you run (i.e. import) `$PACKAGE` more than you re-install it. So there's no point in slowing down (relatively less common) installation events when you can pay the cost once on import.

(The key part being that 'less common' doesn't mean a non-trivial amount of time.)

dddgghhbbfblk · a month ago

Why would you want to slow down the more common thing instead of the less common thing? I'm not following that at all. That's why I asked if that's backwards.

dddgghhbbfblk commented on How uv got so fast nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how... · Posted by u/zdw

woodruffw · a month ago

> It's only once so it's not persistently slower, but that is a perf hit.

Sure, but you pay that hit either way. Real-world performance is always usage based: the assumption that uv makes is that people run (i.e. import) packages more often than they install them, so amortizing at the point of the import machinery is better for the mean user.

(This assumption is not universal, naturally!)

dddgghhbbfblk · a month ago

Ummm, your comment is backwards, right?

dddgghhbbfblk commented on I sell onions on the Internet (2019) deepsouthventures.com/i-s... · Posted by u/sogen

throwup238 · 2 months ago

> You can think of the name as being inclusive of the region, not simply descriptive of the variety.

The term of art is terroir [1], which is the "character" of the environment the plants are grown in. It's often that a region will have some special characteristic due to geology that allows a unique flavor profile to grow so these trade names are the equivalent of a terroir brand.

Some designations are more strict than others, though. IIRC in the case of Vidalia onions the soil is low in sulfur so the biochemical pathways in onions that produce astringent compounds are nutrient starved. As far as I know most sweet onion varieties nowadays are grown in similar soil, but they're not legally allowed to call them Vidalias.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroir

dddgghhbbfblk · 2 months ago

The geology-centered conception of terroir in wine that you're giving is actually rather controversial and not generally supported by any science we've done to date.

For wine, "terroir" rather encompasses things like climate, local customs and practices (viticulture and vinification), and sometimes things like local strains of grapes or of yeast.

dddgghhbbfblk commented on Classical statues were not painted horribly worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/bensouthwood

wisty · 2 months ago

Reconstructioniats say that they only show th colours they can prove existed.

The article suggests they obstinately do this because they know it creates a spectacle.

I think there's another explanation - if they use their own judgement to fill in the gaps (making the statues more classically beautiful) then everyone will accuse them of making it all up, even if they were to base it on fairly rigorous study of e.g. the colour pallets used in preserved Roman paintings etc.

dddgghhbbfblk · 2 months ago

They're making it up no matter what they do, since we don't know how these things were originally painted and have no way of knowing. They should just present the reconstructions as interpretations and actually try to do a good job painting them. I agree with the article that what they're doing now is harmful to the public understanding.

dddgghhbbfblk commented on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition blog.briancmoses.com/2025... · Posted by u/sashk

WarOnPrivacy · 2 months ago

> $10 / TB

That's a remarkably good price. If I had $1.5k handy I'd be sorely tempted (even tho it's Seagate).

dddgghhbbfblk · 2 months ago

It's a good price but the Barracuda line isn't intended for NAS use so it's unclear how reliable they are. But it's still tempting to roll the dice given how expensive drive prices are right now.